User blog comment:Derekoe/DmC: Devil May Cry Knowledge Primer/@comment-1512913-20121101230832/@comment-976055-20121101232009

I'm sorry, but there's been countless information telling us that it is an alternate universe that has no bearing on the original canon whatsoever. It was first confirmed by Tameem Antoniades himself at Gamescom 2011, and has been repeated and referred to as such since then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFPh1udmLE

By all accounts, it's still a reboot, because it does go back and redo things, but more importantly it is still an alternate universe. Apparently you haven't heard it all...